Hot closet for steam-radiators



(No Model.)

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MLBRRR. HOT GLOSET FOR STEAM RADATORS.

No. 420,066. Patented Jan. 28, 1.890.

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M. L. HERR. EOT GLOSBT FOR STEAM RADIATORS.

10.420,066. Patented Jain. 28,1890. l

N. PEERS, Pnlvtillwgnnher. washington. n.6,

UNITED STATES PATENT formen.

MARTIN L. HERR, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

HoT cLosET FOR STEAM-RADmToRs.

SPECIFICATION fomlng pare of Letters Patent No. 420,066, dateuuanuary es, 1890.

Application filed February 23,1888. Serial No. 265,019. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

improvements are, first, to construct a closet which can be more easily cast and put together than those now in use; second, to provide for free and continuous circulation of the heat through and between the different compartments of the closet; and, third, to utilize the entire interior heating-surface for warming the room when the closet is not in use for the special purpose for which it is constructed. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of a closet embodying my invention, showing the radiatorloops connected therewith and one of the closet-doorsopen. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the closet and radiatorloops. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section on the line x, Fig. l. Fig. 4r is a horizontal section on the line y y, Fig. l, the shelves above the intermediate horizontal flue E being removed. Fig. 5 is a top or plan view of the closet, portions being out away to show the interior construction, and the cap, radiator-loops, and doors of the closet being removed.

In Figs. 4 and 5, dierent shapes of the side plates 6 of the outer castings or sections 2 and 3 are shown.

Inthe drawings,A represents the radiatorloops, B the closet, and P an ornamental cap covering the whole construction and provided with perforations 14, cut through the top plate thereof.V

The bases l5 of the adjoining radiator-loops are connected with the lower horizontal iiue of the closet, to be hereinafter describedJ and the bases of contiguous loops with each other by nipples F, screwed into the adjoining parts, as shown in Fig. 2.

To connect the upper part of the closet and i the adjoining loops the former is provided with lugs g, having' threaded openings therein. These openings are engaged by tap-boltsp,

passing through washers w, iitted in the space 'i between the upright parts of the loops. Each group of loops is held together above the bolts p by a rod 12 passing through perforations in webs f, located in the upper end of the space between the vertical portions of said loops, the rods being secured at the inner ends by heads m and at the outer by nuts N, and each end loop is provided with a stopcock 13, as is usual, the whole structure being supported by ornamental feet l1, connected with the bases of the outer loops. These connections of the different parts are fully illustrated in Fig. 2.

The hot closet B is constructed of three p castings or sections-the center l, the back 2, the front 3. The center section l consists of two vertical fines D, forming the ends of the section, and these are connected by horizontal iiues E at the top, the bottom, and between the top and bottom. In the drawings there is but one intermediate flue E shown, but the number maybe increased as circumstances may require. This intermediate ue, with corresponding` plates of the front and back sections, to be described hereinafter, divides the closet into compartments C, and these compartments are again divided by shelves c, projecting beyond the vertical iiues D and provided with perforations 4 to permit the free circulation of the heat and rest on shoulders 7 formed on the inner faces of the vertical flues D. The bottom and intermediate fiues E are of the same width as the vertical ilu es D; but the topmost flue E is not so wide, so that there is an opening or passage V between each of its outer edges and the outer edges a of the flues D. On the faces of the outer edges of flues D there are flanges 5 formed, by which the center section is connected -with the front and back. The back and front sections 2 and 3 have inwardly-projecting side plates 6 and top plates l0 formed thereon. Each side plate 6 laps and is bolted to the flanges 5, projecting from one of the edges of the vertical flues D. The Y IOO ' gaged the sides 16 of the cap P. To the lower inner edges of the anges fr doors S S are hinged, as at h, Fig. 5, which are operated by rods T, pivoted to the free edges thereof, between lugs fn, and passing through openings in the flanges r. At the bottom the sections 2 and 3 are open, as shown at 9, Fig. 8; but they are provided with inwardly-projecting plates B B2, placed opposite the lower and center flues E, respectively, and having their upper surfaces lying in the same plane with the similar surfaces of the corresponding ilues. Each of the plates B B2 has openings b cut through it to permit the circulation of air betweenpthe compartments. Over openingsin thefront of section 3 there are iitted doors` a, leading into the several compartments, and near each end of the same section there are transverse vertical partitions 8 formed, the inner edges of which bear against the vertical lues D to steady and strengthen the front against the jarring occasioned by the movement of the doors. These partitions are also provided with openings d to allow the Icompartments the benefit of the heat radiating from the edges of the vertical iiues D bacl; of them. u

I am in the habit of forming -the radiatorgroups at each end of the closet of three loops each, as giving satisfactory results in heating both the closet and any ordinary sized room; but I do not confine myself to that number.

Y The extension of the plates c beyond the sides of the center section and the projecting of the plates B B2 of the side sections to meet the horizontal iiues widen the parts used for shelves and render the entire width of the closet available for use, While the perforations through those parts permit the free circulation of heat through the whole closet.

Constructing the partitions of iiues and perforated plates, as described, supplies heat pose specified.

to the compartments from the partitions themselves and. at the same time permits the circulation of air through them.

While the closet is being used to keep articles hot, the doors s s are kept closed, but

when such is not the case and the heating of the room is the main consideration those doors are left open. This permits a constant current yof hot air to escape through the top of the closet and the entrance of a corresponding supply of cooler air through the open bottoms of the side castings, the perforations through the horizontal plates permitting the air in the closet to be brought into contact with all heated surfaces therein. Any Way other than that described may be used for connecting the loops and the closet, nor do I claim any particular kindv of loop or manner of joining them; but A e Vhat I do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isl .u

l. The combination, in a hot closet, with vert-ical iiues, of one or more partitions dividing the closet into compartments and'composed of transverseflues and perforated plates, substantially as speciiied. x n

2. The combination, in a hot closet having in the top, of an open-sided central section constructed of vertical and transverse fines dividing it into compartments, and sections forming the front and back of the closet and having top and side flanges which formapor- `tion of the top and sides of the closet, and

perforated plates projecting inward to meet the iiues dividing the central section into compartments, substantially as and for the pur- M. L. HERR. l/Vit'nesses:

GEO. A. LANE,

IVM. R. GERHAR'I".

' openings in the top and bottom thereof and devices for opening and closing the openings 

